Your Mail: Calvinism is not Baptist theology

1:44 PM,
Mar. 21, 2013

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yourmail@thetowntalk.com

Claiming to be something and being something are two different things. Beginning with the time of John Calvin until today, there have been some Calvinists who claim to be Baptists. This is like claiming to be a Christian atheist - the two words are incompatible, so are "Calvinist" and "Baptist." From the time of Christ until today Baptists have been a "whosoever will" people.

For anyone to attempt to inject Calvinism into the Baptist faith is as absurd as would be an effort to inject falling from grace or praying for the dead. Why should we consider Calvinism and not the beliefs of other groups as ...